Senior Detection Engineer, Protective Services

The role

You will build and improve technical capabilities to identify threats to protected individuals. This involves developing detections, pipelines, enrichment, and automation across various security signals.

What you will do

• Conduct hands-on detection engineering for Protective Services
• Implement risk-based analytics to reduce alert volume
• Build, test, deploy, and operate detection-as-code pipelines
• Integrate enterprise telemetry, marketplace activity, and physical security events into detections
• Work with structured and unstructured data using statistical methods, machine learning, and LLM-backed techniques
• Develop and maintain automation and agentic tooling
• Own the detection lifecycle from hypothesis through retirement
• Conduct technical triage and investigations
• Follow detections through investigation, response, and mitigation
• Coordinate with internal and external partners on threats

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in detection engineering, alert development, threat hunting, incident response, security operations engineering, technically oriented threat intelligence, or software engineerin
• Direct experience building, maintaining, and operating production detection-as-code pipelines using source control, testing, review, deployment, and monitoring
• Proven track record building automation that improves detection accuracy, speed, or investigative quality
• Demonstrated experience building agents or LLM-backed tooling to solve detection or investigation problems
• Strong investigative judgment
• Experience building detections across diverse security or behavioral datasets
• Extensive knowledge of cloud-based and distributed systems
• Experience working with global and cross-functional partners
• Mastery of SQL or SIEM query languages such as SPL or KQL
• Proficiency writing maintainable code in Python, Go, or another relevant language
• Experience using MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, or similar frameworks
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience with Snowflake, Cortex, or Google SecOps

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits match
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program

About the company

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery. It is a growing company that aims to empower local economies.